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Cancel Culture Cancels Culture

Relevance: 13%      Posted on: September 26, 2019

Cancel culture, writes Christian Britschgi of Reason, may have just “jumped the shark.” Britschgi tells the tale of “Carson King, a 24-year-old security guard who achieved viral fame after he was spotted on ESPN’s College Gameday waving a sign that asked people to use the mobile payment app Venmo to…

#YouToo?

Relevance: 13%      Posted on: February 25, 2019

“Will Democrats regret if they don’t open an impeachment investigation?” NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd asked Heather McGhee, a distinguished senior fellow at Demos. “It’s important, right?” Ms. McGhee responded. “And we can have, you know, Bill Clinton impeached for obstruction of justice about a sexual affair,” she…

Wag that Tail, Dog

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: April 21, 2017

Last November, Maine voters passed a ballot measure, Question 5, to begin electing their federal representatives to Congress, and their governor and state legislators, using Ranked Choice Voting. This selection mechanism allows voters to rank their choices, thereby removing the “spoiler effect” that often pushes citizens to support the lesser…

Articles of Confederation

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: November 14, 2017

The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States;…

Rage Against the Machine

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: March 5, 2020

The Democratic Insider Machine’s pushing of sorta senile Biden against socialist Sanders is quite breathtaking. But that isn’t even the entirety of the Machine’s anti-democratic agenda. “The establishment narrative warfare against [Representative Tulsi] Gabbard’s campaign dwarfs anything we’ve seen against Sanders,” writes Caitlin Johnstone on her popular blog, “and the…

Don’t Ask, We Won’t Fire You

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: November 24, 2018

Welcome, Townhall readers! This is the Common Sense archive of the November 25, 2018, column at Townhall.com. For more links to this column, click here. Paul Jacob Dr. Rainford had used his official school Twitter account to send the tweets. One can understand that the University might not want any…

Ortega’s Got to Go

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: June 12, 2018

Sometimes “if it bleeds, it leads” fails us. Only a few news outlets have given much attention to Nicaragua’s ongoing atrocities. Weeks ago, mothers of some of the 76 people, mainly students, already killed protesting despot Daniel Ortega, were leading a march demanding justice . . . “when gunmen opened…

Salty Tears of the Guilty

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: April 22, 2019

The Mueller report has not calmed the partisan enmity roiling Washington. Many in Congress complain about Mueller not reaching a prosecutorial decision on the issue of obstruction of justice, thus leaving Attorney General William Barr to determine that actions by President Trump did not reach a criminal threshold.  But who…

Gray Lady Commies

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: June 14, 2019

The New York Times has long leaned left. But is it really a stable Pisa-tower lean, at this point? It sure seems that, in recent years, the Gray Lady has gone extreme, abandoning its “respectable” center-left perch.  The change, economist Alex Tabarrok writes for FEE, appears to have happened “around…

Warren’s No Socialist

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: March 1, 2019

Senator Elizabeth Warren knows that when people trade, both sides gain. She made that clear last year, in a fascinating interview in The Atlantic. But then she went blithely on, saying that she could fix markets by creating a “level playing field.” Markets create value, but Mrs. Warren asserts that…